miscellaneous

Prior posts have reproduced two earlier Extension catalogs from 1930-31. Below is a third from September 1931 (and the last in possession of yours truly). Extension is still listed as headquartered at 805 South Hill Street in downtown LA, not far from City Hall (shown at left in a 1931 photo). Compared to the earlier catalog, this catalog’s cover reports the longest list of locations around the LA/Southern California at which courses were offered. There is a heavy concentration of education courses, probably to allow K-12 teachers to earn credentials. Under Economics are listed various business courses (accounting, marketing, personnel…

The upper picture shows Bullocks department store in Westwood Village in 1945. It was replaced by a larger Bullocks building shown in 1953 in the lower picture. The structure is now a Ralphs supermarket along with other stores.

The Sears store in Westwood Village, 1945

Beverly Glen Blvd. as a country road near UCLA, back in the day.

Although most old photos of Westwood Village are black-and-white, this 1941 picture is in color. The bank in the foreground is now a Japanese restaurant.

UC Extension operated out of a building at the corner of 8th Street and Hill Street in downtown LA in 1931. Prof. Toby Higbie indicated in a comment on my last Extension catalog posting that UCLA did not directly run the Extension program; rather it was administered from Berkeley. However, the UCLA provost served on the board that administered the LA operation. (The photo above is of 4th and Hill in the late 1920s; I can’t find an old one of 8th and Hill.) Some of the course offerings appear to be by UCLA faculty members. Extension apparently had various…

SDS Sigma 7 computer at UCLA in 1967 later used for ARPANET (early Internet)

UCLA Naval ROTC cadets in 1943 at a dance (right) and in 1941 (below).

The UCLA Daily Bruin announced the internment of Japanese-American students in 1942. See yesterday’s post on this blog concerning UCLA’s retroactive awarding of honorary degrees to these students in 2010.